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Welcome to the dreamhouse : popular media and postwar suburbs

"In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television's changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual culture of modern art. Exploring post-war U.S. media in the context of the period's reigning ideals about home and family life, Spigel looks at a range of commercial objects and phenomena, from television and toys to comic books and magazines."--Back cover
Print Book, English, 2001
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2001
426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780822326878, 9780822326960, 9780822383178, 0822326876, 0822326965, 0822383179
44905045
TV households. The suburban home companion : television and the neighborhood ideal in postwar America ; Portable TV : studies in domestic space travel
White flight. From domestic space to outer space : the 1960s fantastic family sitcom ; Outer space and inner cities : African American responses to NASA
Baby Boom kids. Seducing the innocent : childhood and television in postwar America ; Innocence abroad : the geopolitics of childhood in postwar kid strips
Living room to gallery. High culture in low places : television and modern art, 1950-1970 ; Barbies without Ken : femininity, feminism, and the art-culture system
Rewind and fast forward. From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age : women's memories and television reruns ; Yesterday's future, tomorrow's home
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